Robert Loss is an assistant professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Philosophy at Columbus College of Art and Design. His book Nothing Has Been Done Before: Seeking the New in 21st-Century American Popular Music will be published by Bloomsbury Academic in November 2017. His writing about the intersections of culture, politics, and aesthetics in American literature, comics, and popular music has appeared in Public Books, Ghettoblaster, The Comics Journal, and PopMatters, where he writes a monthly music column titled “Ties That Bind.” He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and their cat. For more information visit robertloss.org.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
The Profane Archives of Rock and Pop Writing
On the Library of America’s new anthology of rock music criticism....
Ordinary Life: Greil Marcus, Commonplace Songs, and Commonplace Listening
Greil Marcus offers a perspective that's eclectic and that carves out an everyday space where the art of pop music is still possible....
Scenes of Love and Theft: Bob Dylan, Piracy, and Cultures of Transgression
From Bob Dylan's "Great White Wonder," the first rock 'n' roll bootleg, to "Dell" Glover, patient zero of music piracy....
